This is a video of musician Michael Tan performing one of Bach’s crab canons with a replicant of himself. A crab canon is “an arrangement of two musical lines that are complementary and backward,” similar to a palindrome. Wo, Nemo toss a lasso to me now! The video features Michael
This is a video of Norwegian musician Ramblin’ Rogers (I didn’t know Norwegians rambled at all) playing a country cover of ‘Mad About Mad About Me’ (aka ‘The Cantina Song’), made intergalactically famous by Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes in the original Star Wars movie. He doesn’t really change
This is a video of concert organist Felix Hell performing a tribute to Johann Sebastian Bach on the largest musical instrument in the world, the Boardwalk Hall Auditorium pipe organ in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The organ contains 33,451 pipes, weighs over 150 tons, and is also the loudest instrument
This is a video of the Rockin’ 1000 performing Blur’s ‘Song 2’ in Paris. Do they do it justice? I don’t know, I feel like having ALL those instruments and voices performing simultaneously kind of washed the song out and left it without its original zest. Also, everybody looks really
This is a video of musician Christian Nolen strumming his guitar while undergoing brain surgery to remove a tumor growing near the hand/motor area of his brain. Doctors needed Christian to be awake and using his hands in order to monitor Christian’s motor control during the operation, and playing the
This is a video of the banjo strumming trio of Foggy Mountain Spaceship performing their take on the original Super Mario Bros. overworld and underworld themes. They do a fantastic job. Me? I would have butchered those songs, then smashed my banjo on stage and asked the nonexistent audience who
Darude’s ‘Sandstorm’, best known for being THE TRACK to listen to in my buddy’s Saab in college way back in the 2000’s, is a trance classic. Probably THE trance classic. And this is is a video of musician Alexander Uhl performing the track on a church’s massive pipe organ. It
Because dream it and you can achieve it (unless you’re painfully unqualified like most of the people I meet and try to inspire in real life), this is a video of musician Charles Berthoud covering Scott Joplin’s classic of all ragtime classics ‘The Entertainer’, with a fingerstyle performance on electric